On 19 April 2021, Marshall Allen was a guest on NTS 10 Curated by My Bloody Valentine. Marshall Allen has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 27 August 2017. Marshall Allen's music has been featured on 12 episodes.

A longtime member of The Sun Ra Arkestra, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen later assumed leadership of the group following the departures of Sun Ra and his immediate successor, John Gilmore. He was also a regular collaborator of Babatunde Olatunji, in the process emerging as one of the first jazz musicians to fuse the avant-garde with traditional African music.

Allen was born May 25, 1924,…